A drifter with a guitar stirs things up in Christopher Hicky's small-town yarn The Grace of Jake, rolling into tiny Palestine, Arkansas, and admitting up front that "I came here to kill somebody." That threat notwithstanding, menace is not the primary mode of this easygoing, slice-of-life film, whose best moments find that drifter (real-life musician/actor Jake La Botz) making friends with unexpectedly welcoming locals. With a little more fine-tuning, Hicky's feature debut might have made a stab at the fest circuit; as it stands, its take on grudges and reconciliation will play best with heartland viewers on video.
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- 2/2/2017
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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